3-18-12 old farm field finds!!

[sasquache]

Hello today i met up with a friend and we hunted a old farm field and too my surprise i pulled a indian head cent from at least 12 too 14 inches Thanks too my Whites MXT and my 10x12 excellorator coil i am now digging deep and not missing targets YEEEHAAA !!! here is the video and my finds hope you enjoy .sas [video]http://youtu.be/DItYp4RkAhA[/video]

 

[Nancy-IL]

Great finds! Can you get a date off of the Indian? Is that a fish scaler in the one picture?????? Thanks for sharing, HH, Nancy

 

[sasquache]

Great finds! Can you get a date off of the Indian? Is that a fish scaler in the one picture?????? Thanks for sharing, HH, Nancy

Thank you Nancy no date from the indian head yet but after it soaks i may get one and the fish scaler looking thing it is made of copper so not sure what it is but it was deep thank you for looking SAS

 

[Aarong81]

I thought the same thing, Nancy. But then I was thinking that there is enough 'blade' in just the upper section alone for a full fish scaler, minus the handle. So maybe two seperate scalers?? Then I thought it could be an old design of a Horse Shedding Blade. Obviously a different design than you see today but they had to start somewhere.

 

[Nancy-IL]

Aarong81, I also thought of a horse deshedding brush also after finding out it's not a fish scaler. Hmm, It's a strange item for sure.

Hey sasquache, Why don't you put it on the Whatzit Forum? We would love to find out what it is.

HH,
Nancy

 

[sasquache]

Aarong81, I also thought of a horse deshedding brush also after finding out it's not a fish scaler. Hmm, It's a strange item for sure.

Hey sasquache, Why don't you put it on the Whatzit Forum? We would love to find out what it is.

HH,
Nancy

Hmmn Nancy i dont think it is anything old it has holes for anchoring and too me it looks like some sorta step tred for say a tracktor or wagon

 

[Nancy-IL]

I would hate to step on those with bare feet. HH, Nancy

 

[motodude]

Congratulations on the finds!

I'm really curious about how a person can go out in a farm field and find coins. Was there some history to this field (location of a fair at one time) or something that caused you to hunt it or did you just see a field and decide to go hunt it?

To me it seems like for a field to be worth hunting there had to have been a lot of people on it at one time or another.

 

[sasquache]

Congratulations on the finds!

I'm really curious about how a person can go out in a farm field and find coins. Was there some history to this field (location of a fair at one time) or something that caused you to hunt it or did you just see a field and decide to go hunt it?

To me it seems like for a field to be worth hunting there had to have been a lot of people on it at one time or another.

Hello motodude this are and several field has a history that goes back too the early 1700's and has been farmed,planted and today it is just a hay field in my experience here in Maine people worked and used the fields for everything Hunting,snow shoeing,family events even town meetings and even religous events so is a field worth investigating? sure becouse you just never know.